A Brief History of: The Starfish Prime Nuclear Test (Short documentary)
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The cold war saw ever more crazy Nuclear tests, one such type of these tests was known as Starfish Prime in 1962, and would create a scary but beautiful light display over the Pacific Ocean.
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I was 11 years old in 1957. The family had decided to use our two weeks vacation to make a tour out west. We had stopped in Tonopah and stayed at the Mizpah Hotel ("Home of the Atomic Steak", according to the neon sign out front), and 60 miles west of Frenchman Flats, inside the area of what was then known as the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, where atomic tests were being conducted. Once such test was set off during the evening of what must have been some time in June. All the hotel guests were invited to observe the test from the roof of the five story hotel, the tallest building between Las Vegas and Reno. When the bomb detonated, I saw a small version of the light show observed in Honolulu. It was quite impressive and, according to the experts, perfectly safe from where we were. That was probably true for Tonopah since the prevailing winds were from west to east. None of my five brothers and sisters or me have ever gotten any kind of cancer that usually results from atomic fallout, but that little excursion into atomic bomb history has always had a nagging place in the back of my mind.
"nagging" in a good or bad way? Did it make you more interested in the atomic field, or lead you to be more scared of it?
@@kimjonglongdong3158 Nagging in that, after reading of the deaths in St. George due to fallout from the testing, if it might affect me too. That's a different question from an unreasoning fear of atomic power. I was a project manager of a two year refit job in one of the biggest nuke plants in the county. That job required me to be in various parts of the plant almost every day, so fearing nuclear power itself obviously wasn't an issue. You might have a better understanding of what I wrote if you had ever seen an atomic test that wasn't on film.
I’m so jealous.
@@sarjim4381 biggest reactor in the county damn where you from?
@@nakedzebra67 america probably
I'm surprised they didn't destroy the planet from the 40's to the 60's
Actually, they did.
If at first you don't succeed ,try try and BOOM . We decided to kill it slowly ,: Chernobyl & Fukushima & Surprise .I wanna be an Atomic Shadow , great title for a Ramones title Song !
Growing up from the 60s thru 80s most cities of significance were nuclear targeted, including even Sydney Au, where I live. We literally lived with the reality of nuclear annihilation occurring at any moment, whether on purpose or simply by a technical accident...
They were cautiously struggling for greatness. 1969 rocked, man
@@Michael.Chapman i mean they never stopped being targets if nukes fly thats what they will still hit today id bet
4:33 Aurora Borealis? In this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely above the south pacific?
...Yes
The Aurora Borealis is in the Northern Hemisphere, and south of the equator it's called the Aurora Austrialis. Must have been very weird to see an aurora in Hawaii, maybe the only other time was the Carrinton Event of September 1859, when the Earth was hit by a massive CME from the sun, aurora's were seen as far south as Cuba. If such an event reoccurred today, it would be a disaster. Power grids would overload, there would be no communications, as all electronics would be fried.
Lmao
David Marquardt ruclips.net/video/4jXEuIHY9ic/видео.html
What's this from?
Memorandum? Moratorium
You beat me to it.
@@stephenwright8824 me, too!
Same here
Yes.
Joining the queue. :-D
Starfish Prime? Ahh yes, Optimus Prime's predecessor.
All I imagined was Patrick mourning over Optimus body and being granted title of Prime.
Or Optimus' go to lazy sex position?
Ah yes, the three prime brothers; Starfish Prime, Optimus Prime and Octopus Prime
Could it be Starro the Conquerror in its prime form.
@@nebuchadne33ar the sons of the holy mechafather, Ribulus Prime.
Accidentally damaging other countries satellites but still collects valuable data
*I see this as an absolute win*
This is like ruining the WiFi signal for your siblings by using the microwave, then connecting your Xbox to the router with an Ethernet cable. Devilishly evil.
The 'clever' satement by T H is further evidence of the hubristic nature of deeply ignorant people... who perceive themselves as quite smart, however, they have no benchmark for deep, complex knowledge because they surround themselves with people of their own capacity level. Consequently, their self perception as quite smart (classic self-reporting bias) is never challenged; in their small world, limited milieu, their quips are valued, however, they never come to realize how little they actually know. Takeaway? Nukes do not come under second amendment right to "keep and bear arms" for a good reason-- we do not want the T. H's of the world controlling them. Keep impressing yourself, TH.
@@rands2223 it's called sarcasm...chillax. you sure don't mind using equipment that has more money in technology poured into it to give all the world clean accessible drinking water....yet we don't have it..you ain't bitching about that though...
you dont mind radiating the magnetosphere permanently? Their idea, I believe was to punch a hole in the VanAllen Belt for space travel...trying to mess with mother nature never turns out well.
Todd fancies some cancer cells.
The Soviets found out the same thing with one of their "Project K" high altitude nuclear tests in October 1962. A 300 KT nuclear warhead generated enough EMP to destroy an entire buried underground power cable and even took out a power generating plant.
My brother in law was present for those tests, he's dead now(god rest his soul) but when my sister was cleaning out their house to make ready for sale, we found a framed certificate type paper that stated he had participated in one the the tests. She still has it as we had told her that her husband had been present for an historical event.
My favorite conclusion of this round of testing was that setting off nukes in high orbit could hypothetically damage Earth's magnetic field (and in fact did seem to alter it temporarily). That's one of the bigger reasons they stopped that kind of testing.
It can't hurt the magnetic field; the mag field is emanated from the earth's liquid metal core, which couldn't care less about some nukes in space. What it does do, though, is fill the field up with charged particles which can damage satellites and interfere with radio comms for a while. The mag field deflects and contains charged particles from the sun all the time, and when solar activity picks up more particles get trapped in the field and race between the poles, interacting with the atmosphere and causing the aurora. A big nuke injects a huge load of particles into the field, causing the aurora effect seen in this test.
@@thatoldyankeesguy Uh, what?
@@RCAvhstape I guess they missed the basics of mass=gravity. XD
@@thatoldyankeesguy
1. The cores rotation has nothing at all to do with gravity, it only creates the magnetic field
2. It also has nothing to do with earths orbit, thats simply inertia and gravity of the sun
3. The moon does rotate, otherwise we wont see the same side of it everywhere, we should see the other side of the moon when looking from the other side of the earth
@@thatoldyankeesguy you are very very confused but trying your best lol
Pretty great you were able to find the actual airburst films. About 10 years ago they were nowhere to be found. I even tried to foia them from the government and failed.
The Vz. 58 is the bestest rifle ever.
I think they decided to dump a bunch of them into the public domain as the original films were starting to decay and would be lost forever. Really opened things up a lot for us nukethusiasts.
They were recently declassified. When I was doing research (read: wikipedia crawling) in 2006, footage was not available. Very impressive show, very impressive effect.
I was on Johnston Island in 1995. They were still cleaning up the plutonium.
Check out The History Guy, he has a video on this topic as well.
If you think your “cleaning up” after blowing a nuke in the air you have never actually cleaned up a real mess.
@@fastinradfordable I was told that a missile blew up on the launcher. And there was a whole crew there scraping the ground and processing it. It was one of the 4 places on the atoll that I wasn't authorized to go.
@@FieryWaco That was Blue Gill Prime. See this video. Blue Gill prime starts @ 9:50
ruclips.net/video/fFYmcwNr_hs/видео.html. You can actually see the self destruct charge fire @10:20 to destroy the warhead and spread plutonium all over the launch pad. It was quite a mess.
Geez you'd think after 33 years they'd at least let the cleanup crew take a lunch break or something.
1.44 megatons now that's a gross amount.
I'll see myself out
I just said a hundred 'whats?'
@@Teverell It's a reference to "gross amount" which means total. 1.44 megatons was the total power, thus the gross amount. At least that's my explanation
@@Teverell 144 is a gross in the way that 12 is a dozen.
@@DR-54 I know, and was making a joke in a similar vein
@@jonnyjackson6050 I know, and I was (attempting) to make a joke punning on hundredweight, in a similar vein to the comment I was replying to.
I think your videos are awesome, informative, and very well produced. The British accent is just a bonus. Also I am enjoying the increased video production, atleast something good is coming out of this Covid crap.
His is the best British accent after Patrick Foote (Name Explain).
Stephen Wright I like Name Explain(patrick Foote) as well. I happen to think Douglas Murray’s accent is pretty good too. For some reason as an American I enjoy hearing “the Queen’s English”, I think it’s got something to do with the laziness of American English speakers. Not many Americans speak properly and cleanly.
@@williamdunnamjr972 My degree is in Mass Media. I took a one semester voice class at which I learned that, generally speaking, we don't breathe properly enough to speak clearly.
Thank you 😊
@@stephenwright8824 Best British narrators on youtube are: top5s, bedtime stories, mark felton, curious droid, paranormal scholar, dark curiosities and curious world.
Please lord, bring us more juicy cold war nuclear videos
I will try
Flat earth people like to point to these launches as proof of a dome and the US tried to blow it up
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🙃
😐
More like flat head people
Strap a GoPro to a rocket.. launch it.... Proof earth is round!
I remember my parents waking my brother and I up and taking us up to a mountain lookout above Honolulu to see the test. I remember the sky turning bright green and then slowly fading to a red glow that lingered for a long time. It was pretty scary. We heard later that the earth's axis had been slightly shifted by the detonation.
The axis didn't shift. What nonsense.
@@UnitSe7en I was 9. That's what my parents said. How old are you? Were you there? Perhaps it was only the rotation that was affected.
@@rogerfurer2273 none it's nonsense. It's takes an insane amount of energy to move earth. all this did was annihilate a patch of the upper atmosphere
"Starfish.... Prime?" Okay, this was clearly an actual military strike to kill Starro the Conqueror.
But... If we're sent back to the dark ages, how could I stay up to date on such great content?
It would be a very unfortunate side effect to nuclear war my friend
@@PlainlyDifficult It doesn't even need a nuclear war. Two books you should look for. Lights out, and One second after. Lights out is optimistic about the results, One second after pretty much tells it like it is. Imagine a terrorist group detonating two bombs at 100 miles altitude. The area of effect would pretty much wipe out every electronic device and all the power systems in the US, and parts of Canada, Mexico, Cuba. The US is well aware of this. www.empcommission.org/ has two reports on it. China is working on this, so is Iran. It would cost trillions of dollars to harden vital infrastructure, and a lot of time. They (the US) are not doing anything about it, at least not on the civilian side.
What you described at the end was basically a “goldeneye” scenario
Very true The satelite weapon in that movie was not sci fi at all but works for real. Maybee with less explosions and sparks from the affected equipment but just like in the film everything from computers to the entire electric grid would be fried. All stored information everywhere would be wiped out and...back to the stoneage! A goldeneye weapon is 100% possible!
@@johnpekkala6941 Thats also part of why the world is really not amused that a state like NK has nukes and rockets. US/Soviet bombs are actually designed to minimize EMP (largely because it means less yield) but if a state would maximize EMP potential we would be in real trouble with relatively little effort.
Love that you've been posting so much! Keep up the great videos!
Thank you
I was on Oahu and had just turned 4. I witnessed this with my family, we went up on the roof to see it. My Mother and Brother saw a cool light show. I however was horrified. I understood in that moment that the crazy drunk Army men that filled my life, could blow us each and everyone on this earth to oblivion at a moment’s notice. It broke my mind, it shattered my soul. I was never ok again, I NEVER felt safe again. It was the most devastating moment of my life, I have struggled with crippling anxiety and depression every day since. I’m 64 and my claim to fame is that I haven’t killed myself. What a burden it has been.
Troll
>EMP
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the scary thing is it doesnt have to be a high yield the device..the fission primary is what causes the emp due to compton scattering in the upper atmosphere from the gamma ray pulse and you dont need that big a nuke to fully sature the upper atmosphere
EMP is more overrated than kung flu.
@@km5405 The point is more that today's equipment is MUCH better hardened against EMP than the stuff in the 1960s. Sure, computers may be much more sensitve but they also have much smaller components which are easier to shield.
And shielding is more important for a different reason: The enemy eavesdropping on you. Militaries are more worried about radiation getting *out* of their equipment than any radiation being able to make it *in*.
It is your wonderful coverage on the effects on the society at the time that really "blows me away". Thank you for your care, you never sensationalize this material. You know that one upman ship has no place in this recounting of the facts.
One of my favorite Plainly Difficult vids
Out of all these nuclear stories, this is the one that terrifies me.
Another good one
I've been hoping for a Starfish Prime video from you for a while :)
I saw the glowing aurora this explosion created from Honolulu at the age of 8. The initial detonation was an an extremely bright flash which I didn’t see because I was asleep, but then I was woken up to see the green and red patch in the sky. It was heavily publicized beforehand so thousands of people watched.
I’ll never forget the green. I was 4, I was horrified and it broke my soul. I never felt safe a day in my life since then.
Thank goodness this sort of thing has been consigned to history. You are right about the effect of the same burst today on Honolulu. Every bit of electronic gear rendered useless. Including Air Traffic Control, hospital medical gear and every single car and motorcycle with EFI and electronic ignition.
EMP doesn't work that way, despite the scare stories. An EMP pulse needs alot of "antenna" to generate enough voltage to do damage. Power lines and phone lines are definitely vulnerable. Modern cars and off the grid electronic equipment are pretty safe, just as they are pretty safe from thunderstorms. To be clear, an EMP event would likely be much more severe than a thunderstorm but there are similarities. Starfish Prime knocked out a few streetlights in Honolulu. Did it knock out every germanium transistor radio, too?
If call of duty was accurate then nukes detonated to be EMPs are terrifying
Did you mean to say the three nuclear powers agreed to a Memorandum? or Moratorium?
excellent work.
Thank you!
Man you just keep cranking out the videos, keep up the good work. Love your videos.
The command and telemetry transceiver on Telstar 1 was seriously damaged due to the effects of Starfish Prime. It failed in February 1963, just 7 months into its mission.
The high school in Bethel, Maine, is called Telstar Regional High School, because it's in the district serving Andover, where Telstar 1's US ground station was. A bit oddly, the school was founded five years after Telstar 1 went offline, but fortunately, the station was also capable of servicing other satellites (including later-generation Telstars), so the name was stll current.
(Fun fact: Andover Earth Station is still operational today, although sadly, the giant antenna it used to communicate with the early Telstars and RCA Relay satellites was torn down in the '80s.)
Wait. They blew up the first rocket? What happened to the warhead. I can understand that it might not have been hardend for reentry, but you still have a bunch of nuclear material spread about. You explained the second abort and it makes the firsts missing status more puzzling.
And can we talk about this was the premise of the show Dark Angel?
5:20 aah, love a cheerful ending of a video!
as terrifying as these tests were - they did make for some pretty skies and pictures.
I found out about this nuclear test from a call of duty MW2 callsign.
Posted half an hour ago and I'm just sitting down to dinner after a long day of working on my car, and then cooking! Perfect timing!
05:22, Wow, having some Escape from L.A. flashbacks, great content!!!!
Could you please do a video on bikini atoll where the US government dropped several bombs and made a huge concrete dome covering the radioactive debris on runitt (not exactly sure of the spelling) island. Also, interestingly, this is the basis for spongebob square pants’ fictional home “bikini bottom”. Also love the videos keep it up
Who needs EMPs when you have Facebook?
Know its an oldie but still a goodie, David freaking Hahn
Here before the flat earthers flood the comment section rambling about the 'firmament'.
Flat tards gonna tard...
Just today I read some stuff about the whole bunch of atomic tests they did in the atolls, and how careless the USA handled the radiation. Baffles my mind
Great video as always!
Castle Bravo, Ivy Mike, and Crossroads Baker were all real nasty for sure.
Just for reference: Runit island is apart of the Enewetak Atoll. Lots of big Kabooms there too.
Edit: whoops, someone else mentioned Ruinit. My bad.
You should do the Lac-Megantic rail disaster
5:07 - It's weird seeing a Volkswagen Beetle next to other vehicles of the era. My first instinct is to believe it's a modern vehicle placed amongst a lot of older cars, and I can't quite decide if that's because the design was ahead of its time, or because Volkswagen simply kept the iconic design unchanged for so long.
They did keep them similar for a while. My parents had a 1966 Beetle and it was easy to get parts for it because they were not year-specific.
Paul Drake 1966 is a very specific year for parts.
Deck lid
Tail lights
Last year for headlights.
Last year for 6v
Second to last year for that engine (1300)
Second to last year for tranmission.
First year for fuel gauge on dash.
Second to last year for rear swing axle suspension design.
Car designs and many other things are driven by "style", so peopler think each model year something is new or innovative, and not by actual innovation. In other areas, once engineers have reached a design which maximizes all of the engineering concerns all together, then there is no reason to change it and there is a desire to keep the following year models the same to reduce the number of spare parts needed and lessening the need for training for the mechanics. Volkswagen probably saw their market different from most car manufacturers.
Even in the 1960s it was already an aged vehicle because it was designed in the 1930s.
Cool bite sized plainly!
Honestly 59 seconds is as long as my plans usually hold together so that's not a bad effort...
I love your videos you deserve more subs
Absolutely insane
First one destroyed and number two with the radiation material into the Pacific. Nice. This done despite data on radiation impacts on chitin known already.
The EMP information was interesting. How does that compare to a CME level 5 event?
Good video. Shorter is sometimes better.
This is going to happen real soon
Memorandum? I think you mean moratorium
Guess he didn't get the memo.
I sound like aussy man saying fuck yes when I see your new videos
😂😂
@@PlainlyDifficult can we get a Fukushima video please
@@PlainlyDifficult why won't you make a video on Fukushima
Should have been Patrick Prime
StarfishPrime sounds like a good pokemon name
Like your content keep up the work buddy and make more cool videos.
So many industrial disasters, so little time.
I always wondered why North Korea wouldn't attack a country in this manner rather than by an airburst over land. It seems it would do much more damage to detonate a nuke in space over a country than over land.
I mean depending on warhead size and accuracy, sure. It's a lot easier to detonate a relatively small nuke over a country rather than secretly build a new Tsar Bomba and hit a specific area of a country. Definitely could reach near the same death toll, plus the land is still immediately usable if you wanted to invade.
The History Guy did a video on this as well. You guys should do a collaboration!
"A three year memorandum"
Soooo, not a moratorium, then?
You see on the other side of the world, specifically Ukraine, they have their own atomic rainbow. They call it the "Blowout Emission."
Get out of here, stalker.
A lot of other people call something else a blowout emission
In a movie called voyage to the bottom of the sea, they shoot a nuke into space to save the world
I think you mean moratorium.
Not memorandum.
Surprisingly irritating, isn't it? :-D
no wonder we have holes in the atmosphere cos of all them high altitude nuke tests.
Yep......and disappearing planes like MH370, numerous non-natural changes, and all those other isolated biological phenomena, etc......
@@SoaringEagle1 thats the thing they did say they found a piece of a plain and they thought it was of MH370 but the sea growth on the piece was to advanced to be of that plaine
Quite interesting 😬
They wanted to try to break our waters above (the firmament)
Me (in my bartender mode): Okay, folks, that's it! You are officially cut off as of now. You don't have to go home, but you can't play with nuclear things again!"
I feel like "moratorium" is a better fit.
That's because it's the correct word!
You should check out operation plow share and the sedan nuclear crater along with the Russian equivalent which created lake chagan
the threat of EMP weapons is something that cannot be understated in our tense modern world. Countries with no morals (aka china & north korea and the like) could shatter the lives of *billions* if such tactics were used. We should be making tech more resistant to interference, not as incredibly fragile as it now is, for protection against both other countries and inevitable solar flare events, but yet here we are. It frightens me greatly.
They are a scary conecpt
For an interesting exploration of that topic I would suggest the book "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. In the novel he explores would could happen in a small down in North Carolina after the USA is hit by a massive EMP attack.
Your "countries with no morals" list is a bit short
EMP is overrated.
The crazy thing here is that they tested a rocket by sticking a radioactive warhead on top instead of a dummy one and then blew it up when it started to fail. What idiots thought that was a good idea?
They tried to crack the dome
Flat tards gotta tard
Was this the event mentioned in the US version of Godzilla 1985?
There's also a book from a couple decades ago called The Thor Conspiracy.
the nuke dosnt need to be over a country to cause a emp...it can be on the other side of the equator..and the effect goes all the way to the other side,,,along the magnetic lines....so set off a nuke in south indian ocean,,,and turn off power in moscow.
thank you
Ah good to know why Patrick's brain cells are damaged
What about the orbiting ones?
5:53 ,"A three year memeorandum"..Love it,how beaurocratic
Sorry. it's at 0:51
A nuclear test called "Starfish Prime"? You're just making these up now ;)
😬😬😂
@@PlainlyDifficult Wait until you get to Bluegill Triple Prime! (And the radiological disaster that was Bluegill Double Prime...)
they put a hole in the atmosphere. Later they blamed it on aerosol cans and Freon.
Makes you think!. Detonating nuclear devices in low orbit. Not particularly bright.
Wild
according to Tom Delonge this test alerted the ''bugs''
U.S just put like 2 billion towards nuclear cruise missile production
Either an attempt to break the dome, or destroy something out in space
Nukes are destructive but EMP weapons would be a great deal worse.
Did you not watch the video? In addition to a devastating explosion AND a bunch of highly toxic fallout, a nuclear detonation ALSO causes an electromagnetic pulse. So, no.
@@remcovanvliet3018 maybe Stephen meant 'nukes used for EMP' rather 'nukes for blast effect'. Detonate a huge nuke 50miles above ohio and you take NYC area to chicago out with one single nuke. No electricity for 2000 miles. That's way more dangerous than detonating same bomb in a city, where it would instantly kill hundreds of thousands... but no electricity? that's gonna cost the lives of millions REALLY quickly.
Emp is overrated.
@@liberteus Except for the fact that due to these exact tests, we know that it's a good idea to have stuff like UPSes and diesel generators on hot standby.
If someone were to drop an EMP over a populated area, it would be a big inconvenience, but no disaster.
@@Stoney3K why hassle with nukes when just a sneeze from Sun can do far more harm..
basically the worlds biggest firework
Dark Ages being the 1950s
Then understand that these weapons have been in orbit for decades, waiting for the right moment.
Why don't you make a video on Fukushima
Your patreon link isn't in the description.
"....3 year memorandum...." Did you mean "Moratorium"
Horrifying.
1:00 ESL kid here.... moratorium *
We only need 3000 megatons
More MAD-ness
"Moratorium"
who cares if it was short! it was great!
What is this misconception that modern electronics are "more sensitive" to an EMP? They have smaller and smaller elements, the ICs themselves have absolutely tiny transistors. Basic physics tells you that this makes them more resistant to large electric fields.
Transistor size means nothing when ICs today are many times larger than the biggest ones they could manufacture a few decades ago. Is the famous Intel 8086 with a die size of 33mm^2 more susceptible to an EMP than the 800mm^2 chips of today? Also magnitudes higher transistor density means a charged particle taking out one transistor in an 8086, translates to the same particle taking out a whole cluster of transistors in a modern chip, likely rendering the latter inoperable.
You know basic physics but you don't know basic facts.